Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Monday, June 20th. Donald Trump continues to defend the actions of his supporters on January 6th, even as a new poll finds most Americans believe he should be charged for his role in the attack.

Plus, setting the stage for tomorrow's hearing,

we expect to hear testimony from the Georgia official

who resisted Trump's push to, quote,

find the votes that would put him over the top.

We're also following the latest in the debate

over new gun safety legislation,

the lead Republican negotiator in those

talks, Senator John Cornyn of Texas was booed by his state party for considering even the most

modest changes to gun laws. I've got to say, Mika, considering this convention, the bizarre things that this

convention passed at the end, and it reminds me of what my mother said. And what you'd say to

Senator Cornyn this morning would be judge yourself by your enemies. And if you look at the extremes there, look at some of the horrible things that Republicans

are saying about Yuvaldi right now, the fact that they're getting in the way of a guy

who's actually trying to make their lives safer, their school safer,

their churches safer, their country concerts that they go to, safer, their shopping malls

safer, their grocery stores safer. The fact that supporting public safety becomes a political liability in a political

party, well, that just suggests that political party is moving further and further away from

mainstream and much, much closer to being irrelevant in the state of American politics.

Maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming.

This is unsustainable.

This Republican Party is unsustainable.

We're going to explain that more because there's different strains of that that are really

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